San Domingo (film)

San Domingo is a 1970 West German drama film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. It tells the story of a man who joins a rock music hippie commune. When the commune members learn that his family is wealthy, they tell his parents that he has been kidnapped and demand a ransom. The film is loosely based on the story Betrothal in St. Domingo by Heinrich von Kleist. The actors are primarily non-professionals. The film received the 1971 Deutscher Filmpreis for Best Cinematography and Best Music.^[1]

Cast

• Michael König as Michi
• Alice Ottawa as Alice
• Wolfgang Haas as Hasi
• Hans-Georg Behr as Schorschi, poet and drug dealer
• Carla Aulaulu as Michi's mother
• Peter Moland as Michi's father

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